Nearly two months after Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop summarily canceled a citywide property revaluation, the Fulop administration has yet to take any steps to make the cancellation formal.

Fulop promised when he ran for mayor that he would put an end to the reval, the city’s first since 1988. And he did just that, telling reval firm Realty Appraisal Co. the week before he became mayor that he was halting all payments to it and ordering its work to end.

Hudson County officials say Fulop himself doesn’t have the power to halt the reval, which was given the green light by county and state tax officials more than two years ago under former Mayor Jerramiah Healy.

Hudson County spokesman Jim Kennelly said the formal process to cancel a reval would involve Fulop writing a letter to county tax officials seeking approval from the state Division of Taxation.

Today, city spokeswoman Jennifer Morrill said Fulop’s administration has not petitioned for that approval yet. Morrill declined to answer why the city has not taken petitioned the county or state to halt the reval.

"The reval process has been stopped and is not moving forward," she said in a statementl. "The reval firm has stopped all work, the city is no longer paying them and we will not be moving forward with the reval."

It's not clear what happens if Jersey City never petitions the county to halt the reval. Hudson County spokesman Jim Kennelly referred The Jersey Journal to the state Division of Taxation, whose spokesman did not immediately return a request for comment.

Fulop has said the process used to award the bid to Realty Appraisal was flawed. The city’s former business administrator, Brian O’Reilly, worked for the firm at the time it won the bid, which came in more than $2 million less than the competing bids.

In recommending a reval, the Board of Taxation in 2011 said the ratio between the true value of properties and their assessed value was too cavernous. The average assessed value of a property in the city is about $93,000. The average annual property tax bill is about $6,500.

Fulop, speaking to the editors of The Jersey Journal last month, initially wouldn’t say whether the city would go to the county to get formal approval to cancel the reval. He soon added that he is “open” to discussing with state officials why he doesn’t want it to move forward.

Fulop said he fears a citywide crash in property values. A Downtown property owner could see his taxes go up $12,000 but the value on his house dip by as much as $150,000, he said then.